Appointment of William P. Horn as a Commissioner of the United States Section of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission

The President today announced his intention to appoint William P. Horn to be a Commissioner of the U.S. Section of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. He would succeed Robert L. Herbst.

Mr. Horn is currently Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior. Previously he was staff assistant to the Secretary of the Interior. He was minority consultant to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, in 1977-81; special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Land and Water) in 1976-77; confidential assistant to the Secretary of Commerce in 1975-76; and acting executive director, House Republican Conference, U.S. House of Representatives, in 1975.

He graduated from the American University (B.A., 1972). He is married and resides in Falls Church, Va. He was born December 16, 1950, in Dover, Del.